Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Soda Springs Area, Caribou Co., Idaho, USA

mindat Locality ID: 276260
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-276260.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Soda Springs Area, Caribou Co., Idaho, USA": 19
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 19

Number of Child Localities: 19
Child Localities:
Anaconda Strip Mine
Ballard Mine
Blue Jay Gulch Nitrates Occurrence
Dewey Sulphur Mine (Lloyd Ranch Sulfur Deposit No. 1)
Diamond Creek Proposed Mine
Diamond Gulch Phosphate Mine
Dry Canyon Phosphate Prospect
Dry Ridge Phosphate Deposit
Freeman Ridge Phosphate Property
Idaho Sulphur Mine (Lloyd Ranch Sulfur Deposit No. 3)
Johnson Creek Phosphate Deposit (South Fork Johnson Creek Phosphate Deposit)
Lloyd Ranch Sulfur Deposit No. 2
Phosphate Deposit (MRDS - 10089434)
Phosphate Deposit (MRDS - 10090102)
Phosphate Occurrence (MRDS - 10168312)
Pole Canyon Phosphate Deposit
Slug Creek Valley Phosphate Deposit
Sulfur Springs Occurrence
Unnamed Sulfur Location (MRDS - 10240856)

Latitude: 42°41'12"N
Longitude: 111°23'49"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 42.686666666667,-111.39694444444

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Corundum	Diaspore	Fluorite	None	Quartz	Rhabdophane	Zircon

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Ca Ce F Fe H O P Si Th Y

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality:

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Corundum Diaspore Fluorite None Quartz Rhabdophane Zircon

7 IMA Minerals at location:

Brockite ()*	Fluorite ()*	Goethite ()*	Hematite ()*	Quartz ()*
Thorite ()*	Xenotime-(Y) ()*

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Brockite ()*	Rhabdophane	(Ca,Th,Ce)(PO₄)·H₂O	1	206242	48
Fluorite ()*	Fluorite	CaF₂	1	206242	9617
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	206242	7437
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	206242	14640
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	1	206242	61156
Thorite ()*	Zircon	Th(SiO₄)	1	206242	1006
Xenotime-(Y) ()*	Zircon	Y(PO₄)	1	206242	939

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

Sample	Source Locality	Reference URL

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